17  lGather up your bundle from the ground,

O you who dwell under siege!

18  For thus says the Lord:

m“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land

at this time,

nand I will bring distress on them,

that they may feel it.”

19  Woe is me because of my hurt!

oMy wound is grievous.

But I said, “Truly this is an affliction,

and I must bear it.”

20  pMy tent is destroyed,

and all my cords are broken;

my children have gone from me,

qand they are not;

there is no one to spread my tent again

and pto set up my curtains.

21  rFor the shepherds sare stupid

and do not inquire of the Lord;

therefore they have not prospered,

tand all their flock is scattered.

22  A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—

ua great commotion out of the north country

to make vthe cities of Judah a desolation,

va lair of jackals.

23  wI know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself,

that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

24  xCorrect me, O Lord, but in justice;

not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

25  yPour out your wrath on the nations that know you not,

and on the peoples that call not on your name,

zfor they have devoured Jacob;

they have devoured him and consumed him,

and have laid waste his habitation.